an English nonconformist and Mayor of Newcastle. Barnes wrote a Breviate of the Four Monarchies, an Inquiry into the Nature, Grounds, and Reasons of Religion, and a Censure upon the Times and Age he lived in. Extracts only from these works, which all display much learning, have been published; they went in manuscript in the library of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle, together with a discursive,life of Barnes (dated 1716) by an unidentified writer, who signs himself "M. R." Barnes's memoirs and works were printed in an abridged form by the Newcastle Typographical Society in 1828
